Show Lively Mining Activities At Our Back Door The Richfield Silver SUver Lead Zinc Company was originally Incorporated for the purpose of developing g and mining some zinc lead properties properties proper proper- proper proper-I I ties in a sedimentary formation near the town of Glenwood about eight miles mUes out of cf Richfield Further prospecting prospecting prospecting pros pros- of the grounds under gUidance guidance guidance guid gUid- ance of E. E F F. F B. B Daude who had in the meantime accepted the position of consulting engineer with the c company resulted in locating a number of claims aggregating about acres cres of I ground highly Impregnated with copper copper copper cop cop- per and the first move of the company company company com com- pany was to prove the copper possibilities possibilities poss poss- with a view of attracting big eastern capital for developing the area arca I erecting mills and a smelter and make the country hum with industrial indus indus- industrial I trial activities For this purpose core drilling was started and the drillers have reached now a depth of over COO feet It Is intended to extend the drilling down to 1000 feet and prove the immense body of low grade copper copper copper cop cop- per ore The core resulting from the drilling Is being sent out for us testing ln and assaying to the most prominent metallurgical laboratories of the country country country coun coun- try and to the United States bureau of mines for a check and re The i core of the first feet 1 baa u be des out already and the core free I about BOO MO feet is being 1 cn quartered and shipped tt st the time The testing for tar cop is not completed competed lei e bit tests show a cop COpper coppa from about one-half one to tT two pa averaging b considerably over ever ItI cent Taking into considerate the Utah tah Copper t company k treating ores averaging a I ti than one per cent and compute 1 extent of the territory of th the Copper Company with that of d Richfield Silver SUver Lead Zinc Zin Cc it can easily be seen that If ii ing and mining will 11 be condo the same big scale as used by the th Copper Company the property t be easily worth twice as muc murk much more than the Utah Copper The assays of the core care dove don II b feet made by R R. H. H officer Officer a c Salt Lake City show from 4 t to I Jo of silver sUver and from a trace to 10 toof t of gold which in average gives giral I Iton ton value of right from be fh i face and promising considerably er or ore at depth nd I cover the entire production cm cost tf It copper but would woud leave leav a slight jt making all the copper velvet To the large arge area between GIand Gle OJ and Annabella the company is haI ready added a number of farther south on which a tunnel been driven for twenty eight fet fed reach the vein and this vein in a fire assay 2 per cent copper capper ft ounces of silver sUver and SOC InThe in gold The personnel of the property k follows s E. E C C. C Christensen of Rin Rinthe the present county treasurer p Heber C. C Wilson vice president dinand Erickson E. E F. F B. B Daude suiting engineer and geologist Geo Oeo S. S Pancake sales manager |